People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

19 December, 1916
Hoddlesden, Lancashire, England

Death

3 August, 1998 (aged 81)
Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

bowel obstruction

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• English

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Anglican

Education

• University of Manchester (UK)

Occupation or Descriptor

• physicist

Awards

• Royal Medal (Royal Society of London)
• Knight Bachelor
• Matthew Flinders Medal (Australian Academy of Science)

Legacies

• Alan Walsh Medal (Australian Institute of Physics)

Key Organisations

• Australian Academy of Science
• Royal Society of London (UK)
• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Workplaces

• CSIRO (industrial chemistry)
• Perkin-Elmer